Madeline’s Dance Center – Located at Southern Ulster Center for the Arts
P.O. Box 960, 1041 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY 12542
(845) 236-7989 • www.madelinesdance.com
Mon.-Sat. Hours can vary. Year-round registration.
Provides students with a well-rounded educational approach in dance, tumbling, performance & fitness. Emphasis is on sound technical training and they are also provided with competitive and performance opportunities. Students have been accepted into fine accredited dance programs, received numerous awards and scholarships, and have appeared on professional stages and in the movies. We welcome all students of any age and any level.
Marlborough Arts on the Hudson
ARTIST PROFILES
Barbara Masterson – Studio on The Farm
561 Old Indian Road, Milton, New York 12547
(845) 532-3445 • www.barbaramasterson.com
I am known as a landscape painter. Twenty-one months ago, when I was out plein air painting, a group of young male migrant farm workers came into view. I gestured them into my painting, appreciating their presence at first as merely compelling sunlit shapes in the landscape. As time went on these shapes became much more than figures. Their forms became individual people with sunburned faces, discrete personalities, and with distinct life stories. My paintings began to change and to grow. After almost two years painting in both gouache and with oil sticks and traditional oil paint and brush, my work now is more portraiture than landscape. In my paintings, my subjects sometimes look directly at the viewer. They are hard at work. They claim our attention. These workers are here among us but separated from us. My paintings ask the viewer to come closer to know these human beings.
Laura Martinez-Bianco
384 Bingham Road Marlboro, New York 12542
(845) 236-3049 • www.laurambianco.com
Laura Martinez-Bianco is a plein air painter who works throughout the Hudson Valley and abroad capturing the striking views of the area. Working plein air enables Laura to create her pastel paintings on site, quickly capturing the light and color of a specific moment. The variety of landscapes from mountains to rivers edge from fields and pastures to forests, villages and farmhouses provide unlimited inspirations. Laura also runs several workshops a year for all skill levels in the USA and abroad. Go to the workshop page for more details or search the tag #excellentpaintingadventure via instagram.